Quit smoking a year ago - sick ever since!

Hey have u been to the doctor? What tests have u had? im 7 month now and my head still bother me and my stomach hurts sometime.
I believe we will get better if we don't smoke

YOU ARE SO RIGT. I AM GOING TO STOP LOG FOR MY CONDITION ON THE NINTERNET. WHATEVER I AM GOING THROUGH IS ON ME. EVERYONE IS DIFFRENT..

Hi,I quit smoking cold turkey on January 5/2017,so it will be 6 months for me in a few days.I still go through chest tightness,congestion,tingly feet and hands and shortness of breath,as well I still get constipated,but all these symptoms have been off and on.They usually last a few days,then let up a bit for a day or two,then back on again.There are days I do feel like there is improvement,but very minimal.Is there anyone else who has smoked 34 years,about 3/4 pack a day,that can tell me they finally came to the end of the "quitter`s flu"?....Im sure somebody must have come to the end and knows or can remember what happened and how long it took to get from start to finish...please and thank you :)

Don't feel that way, u are never alone, God will never leave u. I'm been smoke free almost 8 months now. My chest hurt and I'm having stomach issues, but I will be fine. Thank God!

That what I want to know too! I been smoke free almost 8 months. I have the same issues as u, and my issues come and go too! Just hang in there! God got us.

Allen Carrs book is rubbish!! Just a giant ad for his clinics

Hello, Brandon here. This has been BY FAR the best comforting thread ive found on the net. Ive read a lot, even a lot on this same site, but this is the thread I was looking for all along. It has helped me sooo much. so much so that I feel the need to give back and log my story for others to see and follow, if they are to find their way here.

Started smoking when i was 19, quit cold turkey right after i turned 32. 13 years... Right now I am 4 months 16 days in. I have felt ALL the sh*t.... and even some extra. First month was fairly easy and straightforward. Severe cravings, insomnia, sugar crave. I didn't gain much weight. I tend to fluctuate about 10 pounds all the time.

2-3 month the shite all ramped up. the word of the thread... ANXIETY. hit me like a ton of sh*t. Never had it in my life. It paved the way to HEALTH ANXIETY. Put myself in the hospital because of it. I was fine..... had blood and x-rays, all clear. Was so bad that I was sure it was cancer, then cancer seemed to be everywhere, in the news on tv all the ads on the computer from looking it up, I wouldn't even watch a deadliest catch episode cuz the dude thought he had cancer..... Every little bump I find in my body is cancer and googled sh*t endlessly. Finally found ways to rid that of the mind. Early on I really started pushing myself into working out and running. And I KNOW I was overdoing it. When I pushed hardest it would send me into a SOB frenzy, followed by anxiety attack.... I stopped running and walking completely. Just to give myself a break and to experiment with my symptoms. most of which have subsided.

Late month 3 and 4, I have a slight swelling under arm and in shoulder blade and collarbone area, no pain just an odd sensation like im being lightly poked, it comes and goes. Its all on left side. My biggest issues the whole time are mobile muscle aches and joint aches. (moving around) one week its left inner thigh, next week its shoulder front, then back etc.

month 4-now, doing MUCH better, still slight anxiety, and light aches and pains around shoulder collarbone, and upper back. I know these pains are attributed to anxiety, as a month ago I had my remaining 3 wisdom teeth removed. The pain and discomfort from these, and caring for the wounds was enough to make me completely forget about and not even feel anything else (because its in my head dummy) I don't have swollen glands (thought I did) googled that sh*t forever.... just a vicious health anxiety crisis. I can feel my whole body is beginning to relax so to speak, little by little im coming out of it. I WILL be back to update you all every month, as some of the folks did before me. Hang tough everyone,

THIS TOO SHALL PASS

Thanks Brandon for taking the time to share. It really helped.

Hello All, Brandon again. 5 Month update. doing well. I can tell that im having harder craves. My wife went out of town, and my first thought is I can sneak cigarettes.... so bad. I wont break, I wont flounder. My quit motivation is the sh*t ive felt for months. I wont go through this again. still having muscle/tension aches from my light anxiety. still worry a little about health issues. I sit at a desk all day so I slouch and sit like sh*t all day. but I now "catch" myself holding my muscles tense. then I remember to relax. After I quit, I quit getting up and going outside to smoke 6-8 times a day. now I just sit at my desk, and its ruining my posture and muscles. Been remedying this by getting regular massages. one to feel better, two as a treat to myself. Saving enough money to even send out the Mrs. for massage as well. Ill be back next month.

I've quit smoking for 9 months now, but recently I'm having strong feeling to smoke cigarettes again, why? I thought 9 months is long enough to completely get rid of the addiction

I quick smoking 18/03/2017,it's almost 5 month know and has when throught the same and even more aches than most of you. one thing for show anxiety is a killer and boy i have it bad, when will it stop. belly have little diconfort for some time know and all i can think of is cancer. my hole body is out of wack. every thing has hit me muscle and joint aches e.t.c. my energy has return to 85% but i still get some aches but my belly is the problem. i am so glad to have find this site because every body out their just talk a load of S**t. i think it take a year to detox and for the body to adjust. right now anxiety have me cant even eat and that add to my belly problem. most day's weakness and sadness is just how i feel with belly aches, however energy levels are up and down and still be good sometimes. I think GOD will help each one of us, so please stay quick.

I'm nearly 5 months in to my quit and I just feel fatigued and ache all the time, my appetite is very poor since quitting and my digestion is also very poor.

I also have extreme anxiety and I'm am not getting obsessed with the way I feel / my health to the point where it's not good for my mental state.

At the moment it feels like I'm never going to get better.

Im literally going thru everything you described. Its terrible i feel worse sinve quitting

It's ridiculous how the anti smoking nazis do not tell people how difficult and prolonged the symptoms of quitting are

I agree. If they (especially the doctors) were honest about how horrible it is, nobody would EVER try to quit. I know if I were to start again, I would never, ever, try to quit again. I would just accept I am better off a smoker. That's why I am giving this quit everything I can. It's my last time of trying to quit. PERIOD.